"Games of chance were popular among the Romans, even though there were strict laws intended to limit their dangerous consequences. For example, gambling debts were denied legal recognition." (Caption, p. 146)

"Cornell's boxes of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of achingly melancholy juxtapositions of incongruously scaled objects implying temporal and spatial poetic leaps. A Victorian child's soap bubble set would be placed against a lunar map or a...